Exhibits
Guided Tours
Plan Your Visit
Zoo New England is partnering with the Arboretum to run its annual turtle survey! For the past five summers, ZNE conservation biologists have ventured into the ponds of the Arboretum to survey the turtles, minnows, and other biodiversity present there. Join Zoo New England staff for a Tree Mob to meet and learn about the fascinating species that call the Arboretum ponds home.
Unwind with a nature meditation and sound bath in the Leventritt Shrub and Vine Garden, specially designed for older adults. Facilitator Bob Linscott will guide the group through one hour and a half of mindfulness and meditative soundscapes to help you de-stress and connect with the natural world. This program takes place in the Leventritt Shrub and Vine Garden, but we will gather in front of the Hunnewell Building at 125 Arborway and take a van to the Leventritt.
Unwind with a nature meditation and sound bath in the Leventritt Shrub and Vine Garden, specially designed for older adults. Facilitator Bob Linscott will guide the group through one hour and a half of mindfulness and meditative soundscapes to help you de-stress and connect with the natural world. This program takes place in the Leventritt Shrub and Vine Garden, but we will gather in front of the Hunnewell Building at 125 Arborway and take a van to the Leventritt.
Stop by the Hunnewell Lawn while supplies last to create beautiful nature-based cyanotype prints. Participants will arrange flowers, leaves, and seeds and expose them in sunlight to create a deep blue print with bright, ghost-white silhouettes.
This is a drop-in program so there is no need to register, just stop by and get creative!
Over 90% of the Arboretum’s wild-collected plants came from either eastern Asia or eastern North America. These include several closely related species that grow in entirely different hemispheres, including species of maples, viburnums, hydrangea, and more. Join Keeper of the Living Collections Michael Dosmann to learn about some of these plants’ evolutionary histories, morphological similarities (and differences), horticultural merits, and how they were introduced into cultivation and to the Arboretum specifically.
Hundreds of mushrooms hide beneath the Arboretum’s canopies, silently blossoming into unique forms then withering away again just as quickly. Join local mushroom enthusiast Maria Pinto to search for these fascinating organisms on the Arboretum grounds, both edible and poisonous alike. Along the way you will learn what mushrooms to look for in different habitats and seasons, how they move through ecosystems, and what the Arboretum’s unique collections affect what mushrooms you might find here.